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...have sat under that infamous charge for months. ... I was gratuitously brought into [the report]-apparently on the theory that Tojo and his military elements, who were moving on a world rampage, were not guilty, but that this Government of a peaceful people, with no preparations in the Pacific to fight, with no two-ocean navy, was the cause of poor innocent Tojo being dragged into...
...Previously Hirohito had granted press interviews to Frank Kluckhohn of the New York Times and Hugh Baillie of United Press (see PRESS). He asked them some questions, wished them well, and answered their own questions in writing. If he was making propaganda, he did it gracefully. He said that Tojo had abused the imperial war rescript in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor; he hoped that Japan would become a democratic constitutional monarchy somewhat like Britain's (Japan has had a constitution of sorts since...
...Catch. War criminals were slowly being rounded up and divided into three categories: those who had plotted and perpetrated the war, such as Hideki Tojo and his Cabinet; military leaders responsible for military outrages such as the rape of Nanking and the death march on Bataan; Japanese soldiers and civilians responsible for individual atrocities...
Before Pearl Harbor, Tokyo's largest newspaper, Asahi, was considered sufficiently pro-American to have once had its plant wrecked by irate militarists. And after Japan's fall it was still the most favorable to the U.S. of Tokyo's six dailies. (Editorialized Asahi: "The Tojo military clique represented deliberate arrogance, ignorance, self-complacency, vanity...
When he was pressed to answer whether the Emperor knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor before the strike, the ex-Premier would not be sure. But on the general ignorance and confusion in Japanese high quarters he was emphatic. Tojo, he insisted, was unaware of the Battle of Midway at the time it was being fought. There was constant friction between the Army, Navy and State Departments...